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Workshop: Decision-making for a social world

Welcome to the Decision Making for a Social World webconference.

Through the information they transmit, the pressures they exert, the emotions they elicit, other people have an enormous impact on our decisions. Such social factors have not received all the attention they deserve in the study of decision making. But new trends in decision making are starting to fill this gap. The goal of this conference is to bring together some of the top researchers who are working to incorporate the social world into the study of decision making.

Every two weeks or so, a new paper will be posted online. Everybody will be able to comment on the articles, with the authors joining the discussion.

A more substantial introduction can be found here, using reasoning as an example of a mechanism that can be better understood if we take into account its social function.

Judgments and decisions based on attempts to disambiguate the given information: The effects of decision frames, non-diagnostic information, and information order

June 20

Adam Grant (Wharton) & David Hoffman (UNC)

It's Not All About Me: Motivating Hospital Handwashing by Focusing on Patients

July 5

Robert Kurzban (University of Pennsylvania)

Modularity and decision making

July 18

Michael Liersch (NYU), Craig McKenzie (UCSD) & Shlomi Sher (UCSD)

Framing effects, default effects, and trust

August 1

Joe Kable (University of Pennsylvania)

Social influences on "Self"-Control

August 14

Philip Tetlock (University of Pennsylvania)

Uncovering and punishing unconscious bias

We hope many of you will enjoy the papers and join in the discussion!

Many thanks to the institutions that have made this webconference possible: the International Cognition and Culture Institute (and its institutional supports the LSE and the Jean Nicod Institute as well as its webmasters Olivier Morin and Nicolas Claidière) and the Philosophy, Politics and Economy program of the University of Pennsylvania.